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Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Requiem for Detroit: 5 Stars and a bag of urban spinach

Staying on documentary's, but of a more reliable kind than Exit Through the Gift Shop, Julien Temple's Requiem for Detroit (here on iplayer) is magnificent. Simple and straigthtforward, it goes way beyond ruin porn with no reconstructions, no celebrity narrators, just insightful interviews with people who understand the history of the city they live in and are eloquent and generous enough to talk about how race, transport, drugs, housing and the car industry all contributed to Detroit's decline. There's even an anti-corporate glint of hope at the end with the city's urban agriculture movement.